Roundabout construction in Richmond frustrates residents [Video]

Roundabouts are designed to keep traffic flowing, but residents in the village of Richmond are fed up with the ongoing construction of a new roundabout in the community and the delays it is causing.

The new roundabout is located at Perth Street and Meynell Road. Residents say construction started in the summer and has been slow moving ever since.

“Every single day we have to wait for 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, to just go to work and to our day-to-day life,” says Katyoon Ghaffari, who has lived in the village south of Barrhaven for two years.

“The people here, they are not happy at all. We cannot live like this.”

The project is a four-way, one lane roundabout. Currently, due to construction, only one of the four directions of traffic can move at one time, causing traffic backups in the other directions.

On Oct. 17, Rideau-Jock Coun. David Brown issued a memo online regarding the roundabout project following numerous complaints from residents.

Within it, Brown says that the …